Word: overly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The increasingly defiant tone of the nationalists has provoked the ire of hard-liners in the Soviet leadership. In a harsh blast read over national television, the Communist Party Central Committee denounced the protests as an attempt "to incite the peoples of the Baltic republics to secede from the Soviet...
At approximately 10:20 p.m., a plunger was depressed and the cache detonated. Soon after, a Japanese patrol checking the site reported that it had been fired upon by Chinese troops, even though the local warlord, an ally of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had kept his soldiers in...
The fall of Manchuria was followed by the Fake War, an extended period of posturing by the Chinese and Japanese. But in January 1932, as the League of Nations debated Tokyo's aggression, a Japanese cruiser, four destroyers and two aircraft carriers anchored in the Yangtze River off the international...
Confrontation and struggle have marked much of Silber's career. "Everything is combat to him," says one B.U. professor. Born in San Antonio, Silber grew up in the hardscrabble Depression years. His mother helped support the family as a schoolteacher while his father, a German architect, tried to make ends...
Solidarity, long an outlaw, forms a new coalition to take over from the bankrupt regime in Warsaw, but the army and the police remain under Communist , control. Eyeing each other, Washington and Moscow promise to let Poland be Poland. -- Beirut's battling factions threaten finally to murder the city itself...